Disabled motorists in central London are set to benefit from a host of new measures agreed today by the four inner city boroughs of Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, Camden and the City of London.Increased consultation over the location of disabled parking bays and the harmonisation of parking schemes across London are just a few of the new measures which are to be introduced.The campaign to get the four councils to work together on this issue was led by Shadow Minister for Disabled People, Jeremy Hunt.Earlier this year Mr Hunt organised an event in the House of Commons, entitled the Central London Parking summit, during which the boroughs were brought together to discuss how to provide a better service to disabled motorists.Jeremy said: ""London is a terrible place for motorists at the best of times but many people have the option of taking public transport to avoid that. For disabled people, using a car can sometimes be the only option.""Parking schemes for disabled people in London are currently confusing, complicated and in need of updating. ""I am delighted that the four inner London councils have decided to come together to harmonise their schemes to make them more transparent and easier for disabled motorists to understand and utilise.""Included amongst the measures are radical plans to allow disabled drivers to nominate locations for new blue badge bays.The councils have also promised a significant increase in the overall amount of disabled parking space in central London and, to reduce uncertainty, they have pledged to harmonise the concessions available to blue badge drivers in all four boroughs.Because of the unique and intense parking pressures in central London, the four are exempt from the Europe-wide blue badge disabled drivers scheme and instead operate their own local badge schemes for disabled residents. However blue badge holders still enjoy a wide range of concessions, including dedicated blue badge bays near hospitals and an extra hour of free parking in paid for spaces.""Parking space is in desperately short supply in central London,"" explained Councillor Daniel Moylan, the Royal Borough’s Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Planning Policy, Housing Policy and Transportation. ""The ambition of all four London Borough’s with this announcement today is to continue to work together to deliver the maximum increase in parking convenience for blue badge holders consistent with keeping traffic moving and maintaining road safety.""The package includes a mixture of short, medium and long-term measures to improve blue badge parking in central London. Short-term, the councils are promising to: ● Review the current usage and location of Blue Badge bays.● Invite nominations for new Blue Badge bay sites from local people and disabled groups and enhance the disabled parking content on their websites. In the medium-term, they have committed to:● Increasing the number of Blue Badge bays. ● Significantly improving the presentation of the facilities and information available to blue badge customers in central London. ● Harmonising Blue Badge concessions across central London. Over the long-term they aim to: ● Investigate the introduction of a single central London badge scheme to improve accessibility for inner London boroughs disabled badge holders.